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What we're going to do here is we're going to scan in artwork that has been inked over and inking simply means that the pencil artwork that was created on paper has been drawn over again in either marker or pen, or ink with a brush. So what I'm going to do now is go to the file menu and return to the scanning software called Scan Gear in my case, and the old scanner called Old Betsy is going to start up again and in a moment we'll be able to bring in another piece of artwork. Okay. My scanner, in particular, remembers the last scan so for me to clear that I'm going to hit this little X right here, although hitting preview again will do the same thing. So I'm going to hit X. Now, what we did earlier with the pencil artwork was choose the grayscale mode. Since I'm bringing in ink artwork this time, once again, you would think that black and white would be the option, but once again, grayscale rules out and wins. Grayscale is a really good mode because it gives you a nice amount of resolution to work with. Black and white simply doesn't do the trick. So I'm going to choose grayscale and since this artwork is inked the scanner doesn't have to work quite as hard to gather up all the details from the platen, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to leave it at 400 or I could even drop it down to 300. Once again, pencil artwork is made of crystals, so the scanning software has to deal with the light reflecting and bouncing off those crystals which is why you don't get a nice sharp scan with a lower resolution. See? I'm a scientist as well, ah huh! See. I do a lot of things, folks. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to drop the resolution down to 300 in this case because 400 with line artwork is not really necessary although I do recommend it. But I'm dropping this down also to save time when the scan happens as well. So I'm going to preview this and we're going to see a sharp image appear in just a moment. Since the ink is so dark the scanner doesn't have to work quite as hard to get the details you need. And what I can do now is choose my crop region and when I'm happy with that I can hit scan. Now we'll give this just a couple of moments to get into Photoshop. The reason I want to show you this technique as opposed to the pencil technique is because when you want to trace artwork over in Illustrator you can use a tool to actually trace the artwork for you so you want to make sure; let me go ahead and close this, that your artwork is as clean as possible. Now what I'm going to do is hold the spacebar down and move my mouse and then I'm going to use my Navigator to zoom in and move this box here to study the artwork to make sure all my lines are nice and clean and that I don't have any gaps. Let me show you what I'm talking about. Let's say I had a gap like this. Illustrator would see this gap and let the color spill out, so you want to have a gap closed. Now, Illustrator does have tools to help you close gaps, but I like to bring my artwork in clean the first time. So I'm going to undo that and get that back the way it was, and once again I'm going to go to my Navigator and slowly but surely look at the artwork to make sure all of the lines are closed. And this is what I normally do when I'm going to color some artwork in Illustrator. I used to also use a program Adobe used to have called Streamline. And what Streamline would do is literally look at the artwork and determine based on the closed lines, areas that could be colored, so it give you like a coloring book effect when it was done, so you can click on a region and color it without having to select. So you click on it and color it. Click on it and color it. You won't have to do anything like draw an outline like you would have to do in Photoshop. And once again, Illustrator does have a tool that allows you to trace the artwork in it, so we talked about that in earlier parts of this movie if you just skipped ahead to this section on scanning. Be sure to find the part in Illustrator on how to trace the artwork.